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Oscar Voting Has Begun: Here’s What Not to Do, Voters

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the Academy moving to what they called preferential voting in the newly-expanded Best Picture category on my first day at TheWrap back in 2009.

I’ve written about it many, many times since then, and even made a video about it. But there are lots of new Academy members these days, and I’ve been getting some questions lately that make it clear how plenty of voters don’t understand that one of the strengths of ranked-choice is that you don’t have to try to get cute with your ballot.

That ballot — which is different from every other Oscar category, where you simply vote for your favorite — asks you to rank the Best Picture nominees in order of preference, 1-through-10.

And that ranking throws up a lot of red flags for people who worry that they can hurt their No. 1 choice by voting for something else lower on the ballot.At the Producers Guild Awards last weekend, an Oscar-nominated producer called me over to explain the system to an Oscar-nominated writer.

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